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IndianExpress: NOW that Hollywood’s celebrity couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are here to shoot for A Mighty Heart at one of the bungalows in Sindh Cooperative Housing Society in Aundh, its residents, fearing that their society is at a risk, have asked the managing committee to step up security.

‘‘When we gave permission for shooting the film about a fortnight ago, we had no idea that it was such a huge project and on such a controversial topic —or else we may not have granted the permission at all,’’ said a committee member. The film is based on Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl who was beheaded in Pakistan.

IndianExpress:  THE Poona District Motor Goods Transport Association on Friday took out a morcha to the Pune Municipal Corporation to demand development of all four truck and bus termini in the city and handing them over to the association.

Lands at Dhankawadi, Bhairoba Nala, Katraj and Balewadi have been earmarked for truck termini. However, the civic administration has so far succeeded in developing only one truck terminus partially — the one at Dhankawadi

IndianExpress: CHILDREN living in the Pune Cantonment area will get a unique Diwali gift this year. The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to provide free healthcare for those below 12 years of age at its hospital and three dispensaries. The medical expenses, including consultation charges, medicines, and hospitalisation fees, will now be borne by the cantonment board from its own funds.

IndianExpress: A 17-year-old collegian from the city was robbed of cash and jewellery by two armed men when he had gone for a stroll at Hanuman Tekdi behind Fergusson College on Thursday afternoon.

The police have started looking for the robbers after the victim, Ajinkya Kiran Bhosale, lodged a complaint at Deccan Gymkhana police station on Thursday evening.

BBCNews:  A machine that can replicate the spin and swing of bowlers has been developed at a UK university.

The robotic bowler has been created at Loughborough University as part of a virtual reality project to improve match training for cricket

TechTree: ASUSTek Computer (Asus) has reportedly introduced its 20-inch, wide-screen LCD monitor, the PW201.

Speaking about the new monitor, Leena Ajmera, product manager - LCD business, Asus India, said, “The Asus 20-inch PW201 LCD Monitor comes packed with many features, so as to facilitate usage requirements of business users as well as gamers and movie enthusiasts

TechTree: Transcend, a known manufacturer of flash memory cards, has reportedly released its 8GB SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card.

The SD card is one of the most popular flash memory standards in the world, while the SDHC is the newer generation within SD cards (Version 2.0).

The new 8GB SDHC card is fully compatible with the SD 2.0 standard, and extricates optimal results from Hi-Tech SDHC portable devices.
The card supports Error Correcting Code (ECC) in System Programming (ISP) to load firmware, and also supports power down and sleep modes

News.com: InfiniBand, a high-speed communication technology, has been extended to speak the language of iSCSI networked storage systems.

The addition, called iSER, gives a high-end boost to the lower-end iSCSI technology. In its current incarnation, iSCSI uses conventional 1-gigabit-per-second Ethernet networking and is typically slower than its 4Gbps rival, Fibre Channel. With iSER, it can tap the performance of InfiniBand, which communicates at 10Gbps, but can reach 20Gbps if used with the InfiniBand DDR (double data rate) hardware introduced this year, said Len Rosenthal, the marketing representative for the InfiniBand Trade Association.